Arrow Fabricare has again jumped in to help out for the 5th year on the 9th annual Coats for Kids Campaign - beginning Monday, November 7th and continuing to collect through December 9th. Arrow is working in cooperation with KMBZ Radio to collect usable coats and winter jackets - and cash.

There's always a need, and once again this year, the tough economy has put a an even bigger more painful crimp in lower-income budgets. When we can offer clean coats and jackets for school-age young people before the blustery onset of winter, it's a wonderful help for so many families. Last year, more than 9,000 coats and jackets were collected, cleaned by Arrow and Pride, and distributed by volunteers from Sertoma and the U.S. Army to the Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Hickman Mills and the Independence school districts.

Again this year, Arrow will have a large coat collection box in the lobby at 39th and Troost. Arrow's residential route customers are asked to separate, and clearly mark the bag with their donated coats. The Arrow route representative will gather the donated coats along with the customer's regular order. Check your closet for outgrown and unused coats! All sizes are needed. KMBZ Radio will be broadcasting live from Arrow's Front Counter at the plant in midtown Kansas City, 3838 Troost Avenue, KCMO 64109. You are welcome to drop by and make a donation of a coat or some cash and have a little refreshment also.Live Broadcasts will be:4 pm to 6 pm - November 11th and 7 am to 9 am - November 30thThank you for helping make “Coats for Kids” a success again this year!

Arrow Fabricare has again jumped in to help out for the 4th year on the 8th annualCoats for Kids Campaign - continuing to collect through December 10th. Arrow is working in cooperation with KMBZ Radio, The Sertoma Club, Pride Cleaners and Gail's Harley-Davidson to collect usable coats and winter jackets - and cash.“There's always a need,” says Neil Larrimore, KMBZ program director, “but this year the tough economy has put a huge crimp in lower-income budgets. When we can offer clean coats and jackets for school-age young people before the blustery onset of winter, it's a feat of heart.” Last year, more than 11,000 coats and jackets were collected, cleaned by Arrow and Pride, and distributed by volunteers from Sertoma and the U.S. Army to the Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Hickman Mills and the Independence school districts.Again this year, Arrow will have a large coat collection box in the lobby at 39th and Troost. Arrow's residential route customers are asked to separate, and clearly mark the bag with their donated coats. The Arrow route representative will gather the donated coats along with the customer's regular order. Check your closet for outgrown and unused coats! All sizes are needed. Thank you for helping make “Coats for Kids” a success again this year!

If you are a "pickup and delivery" customer, you may have never visited our attractive counter facility at our main plant on the corner of 39th and Troost in midtown Kansas City. Many Arrow customers choose to bring in their garments rather than having them pickup up. Reasons given are: they enjoy the especially helpful and professional personnel in our counter customer service department. Others say that they just like getting out of the house.

Check us out, soon. And while you are at it, please consider looking through your closet for a good "give-away" coat for our "Coats for Kids" campaign in conjunction with KMBZ Radio. In the lobby (see pix below) we have a collection box. Last year Arrow and others collected, cleaned and delivered to metro area school districts over 11,000 coats for children. Please help out if you can. We'll see you there!!!

Arrow Fabricare has again jumped in to help out for the 3rd year on the 7th annualCoats for Kids Campaign - November 9th to December 11th. Arrow is working in cooperation with KMBZ Radio, The Sertoma Club, Pride Cleaners and Gail's Harley-Davidson to collect usable coats and winter jackets - and cash. “There's always a need,” says Neil Larrimore, KMBZ program director, “but this year the tough economy has put a huge crimp in lower-income budgets. When we can offer clean coats and jackets for school-age young people before the blustery onset of winter, it's a feat of heart.” Last year, more than 11,000 coats and jackets were collected, cleaned by Arrow and Pride, and distributed by volunteers from Sertoma and the U.S. Army to the Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Hickman Mills and the Independence school districts. Again this year, Arrow will have a large coat collection box in the lobby at 39th and Troost. Arrow's residential route customers are asked to separate, and clearly mark the bag with their donated coats. The Arrow route representative will gather the donated coats along with the customer's regular order. Check your closet for outgrown and unused coats! All sizes are needed. Thank you for helping make “Coats for Kids” a success again this year!

Friday morning, November 20th, the bright red remote broadcasting van showed up on Arrow's doorstep. A large contingent of KMBZ personnel were on hand to assist Arrow customer's who arrived to donate coats for indigent Kansas City schoolchildren. Last year over 11,000 coats were cleaned and distributed by Arrow and others.Shown below are Kansas City, Kansas schools' representative, Theresa Van Goethen along with Andrew Dunlap and John Frierdich, sales promotion personnel at KMBZ 980 radio.

Right, Arrow customer, Anna Wenzel, arrived with her cleaning and joined in with the staff for coffee and donuts. It was a lot of fun, and we hope by the end of the day many coats will be collected due to KMBZ's on-air broadcasts frequently during the day. Also in the photo, KMBZ on-air personality, Scott Parks is shown in conversation with KMBZ's remote engineer, Dave Rhodes (not shown).